Monthly Archives: March 2012

WITU MarchMeet, Improve a woman’s life, give her an App Apps built by women for women

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vWomen in technology Uganda

Theme: Improve a woman’s life, give her an App Apps built by women for women

Date: 16th March

Venue: Mara Foundation Launchpad, Opp Makerere University Main Gate at Tusky’s building, 4thFloor

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

March is a women’s month so we want to focus on what technology can do for a woman, how we can use tech to improve a woman’s life, take a stand build an app that will transform a woman’s life today. It could a health issue that this app tries to solve, change a woman’s life today by enabling her through mobile apps, and enable a woman by a simple tap on her phone. Women are the underutilized assets we posses in Uganda, Let us get things done and not wait on others to come solve our problems. How can you assist a rural woman today, a business woman that is not skilled in Tech, whatever issues you can think of that can aid a woman’s life and improve it? Come for our meet this Friday 16th and lets think together. The winning app will WIN a PRIZE! Let us support our fellow women this month by providing them with something we are good at, Tech! Come with a another lady! Lets build together

 

please register here for your ticket. http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2992720307

Software Development Workshop - JAMS 2012

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Grameen Foundation AppLab invites you to for a software development workshop to be held at Makerere University School of Computing and Informatics Technology(former FCIT).
The JAMS 2012 workshop will take place from March 19th to 30th, 2012 and will be facilitated by trainers from Thoughtworks(a leading software development consultancy firm). It will be an intensive hands on workshop running from 9am to 5pm everyday and covering topics ranging from agile development practices to app architecture and refactoring to patterns.
At the end of the workshop a number of participants will get:
  • 3 months internships at Grameen Foundation Applab
  • Mentorship from leading industry experts
  • An evening with the Thoughtworks team
Participants will be required to bring their own laptops with the following installed:
  • JDK 1.6 or higher
  • JUnit 4
  • Latest version of Eclipse
Participants will also be required to cater for their own meals and refreshments throughout the program.

Interested? What are you waiting for? Sign up at http://jams2012.eventbrite.com. We only have 50 places available on a first come first serve basis!

Don’t miss out!